Subj : Found .chk files To : Bob Bainbridge From : Jeff Guerdat Date : Tue Jan 29 2002 11:34 pm On 01-29-02, Bob Bainbridge said to Jeff Guerdat: JB>I discovered a folder on my disk called found.000 with alot of .chk JB>files...can I remove them? JG> If yer not missing data or having software problems, JG> yes. These are usually JG> temporary files but may also contain real data. If BB>The *.CHK files found in the \found.xxx directory aren't temporary files. BB>They are files created bt CHECKDSK or SCANDISK from lost clusters. These BB>can occur when the system is abnormally powered off without an orderly BB>shutdown and there were files open at the time. In 20 years I have never BB>found any useful data in them and usually just delete them. The exception BB>would be if you lost a word processing or text file and was able to BB>recognize some of it in a .CHK file. Mostly they are ASCII files and you BB>have no idea where they came from. Bob Bainbridge Yeah, I oversimplified too much. They seem to be frequently from temporsry files (hence the lack of loss of data) but I should have said what you just did for completeness... ___ *Durango b211 * DurangoMail for Windows NT/9x --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .